Engrish!
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Ok. As promised, I am going to post the Engrish from room 231. I've had it sitting around for a while, but hadn't remembered to post it. I'll also try to update more with what else is going on these days, but I've been quite busy. Remember, we're putting on a musical and (as anyone who's been in a school musical will know) it's eating into all of my once-free time.
And now, Engrish!
These paragraphs were posted on display boards around the classroom. I pieced together that the ESL class had an assignment to present information on an important invention. Here are excerpts (exactly as they were written) from two of those projects:
"Calculate
But in 1830, an American person named Charles Babbage was start make the new calculate than can calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, in this time, calculate was permeate to peoples life.
...
Now, calculate was part of people's life. People use them to count many things. Is more fast, exactitude than calculate by our hand. It has different size, different function, and much more smaller. Calculate it's one big invent in the world."
"Paper
The left wings father's elder brother of papermaking expert. Besides, the paper is also one after another, passed on to north every the ethnic minority area with the embellishments in writing book by means of the Silk Road."
Whew. That last sentence is monstrous. I can't even figure out what that paper paragraph was trying to say. Perhaps something about how paper helped information reach remote/rural areas now that things could be written down? Well, I'll leave the fun of translation in your hands. Enjoy!
Ok. As promised, I am going to post the Engrish from room 231. I've had it sitting around for a while, but hadn't remembered to post it. I'll also try to update more with what else is going on these days, but I've been quite busy. Remember, we're putting on a musical and (as anyone who's been in a school musical will know) it's eating into all of my once-free time.
And now, Engrish!
These paragraphs were posted on display boards around the classroom. I pieced together that the ESL class had an assignment to present information on an important invention. Here are excerpts (exactly as they were written) from two of those projects:
"Calculate
But in 1830, an American person named Charles Babbage was start make the new calculate than can calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, in this time, calculate was permeate to peoples life.
...
Now, calculate was part of people's life. People use them to count many things. Is more fast, exactitude than calculate by our hand. It has different size, different function, and much more smaller. Calculate it's one big invent in the world."
"Paper
The left wings father's elder brother of papermaking expert. Besides, the paper is also one after another, passed on to north every the ethnic minority area with the embellishments in writing book by means of the Silk Road."
Whew. That last sentence is monstrous. I can't even figure out what that paper paragraph was trying to say. Perhaps something about how paper helped information reach remote/rural areas now that things could be written down? Well, I'll leave the fun of translation in your hands. Enjoy!
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